Predictors of Unfavorable Outcomes in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation and Concomitant Heart Failure with Different Ejection Fractions: RIF-CHF Register One-Year Follow-Up by Igor Zhirov, Natalia Safronova, Yulia Osmolovskaya, Alina Alshevskaya, Andrey Moskalev, Sergey Tereshchenko

“…Each group of patients with different ejection fractions is characterized by its own pattern of factors associated with the development of unfavorable outcomes. …”
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Total neoadjuvant chemotherapy according to the FOLFIRINOX regimen for locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the stomach and cardioesophageal junction: interim results by M. V. Sedova, M. A. Batov, A. A. Kolomeytseva, V. M. Khomyakov, N. N. Volchenko, A. A. Fedenko

“…The study included 136 patients, 119 of whom started treatment according to the protocol (ITT population). Fiſty-nine patients were enrolled into the FLOT group and 60 into the FOLFIRINOX group. …”
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Review of the environmental and health risks of hydraulic fracturing fluids by Sara Makki, Elsa Maalouf, Alissar Yehya

“…Fracturing fluid recovery rate is highly variable, and the fact that a high percentage of the injected HF fluid is not produced back to the surface in some areas raises questions about its fate and possible migration into aquifers. In this paper, the composition of the HF fluid and related toxicity are described, along with insights about the environmental impact linked with HF fluid, synthesized spill data, main factors affecting the flow-back ratio, and induced seismicity related to HF activities. …”
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Un Wanderer insolite cherche son chemin by Arlette Kosch

“…Geiβler (from 1825) particularly stands out because of its quality and the force of its expression: one inhabitant of that little town, laden with technical equipment, sets out on foot to take a walk in the Swiss mountains. …”
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Measuring the patient safety climate in community pharmacies: an updated national survey by Christina Ljungberg Persson, Annika Nordén Hägg, Björn Södergård

“…The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ), containing items on safety culture arranged in six dimensions, was used in both surveys. …”
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On Topological Analysis of Entropy Measures for Silicon Carbides Networks by Xing-Long Wang, Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui, Syed Ajaz K. Kirmani, Shazia Manzoor, Sarfraz Ahmad, Mlamuli Dhlamini

“…The silicon material has provoked and stimulated significant research concern to a considerable extent taking into account its marvelous mechanical, optical, and electronic properties. …”
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LEASING AS FORM OF STATE-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP by E. B. Zavyalova, I. V. Linev

“…The specified advantages of the parties of the contract of leasing and its fundamental difference from the rent, being that when leasing the private sector, entering partnership with the state, not only applies administrative skills, but also invests the capital, are preconditions for its widespread introduction. …”
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LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS AS LEARNING AND TARGET NEEDS IN BUSINESS ENGLISH PROGRAM FOR TOUR GUIDE DIPLOMA STUDENTS IN KENYA. by Douglas Ondara Orang'i

“…This paper focuses on listening and speaking skills. The paper based its theoretical framework on Munbian (1978) Approach and Learning Centered Approach by Hutchinson and Waters (1987). …”
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Minority Narratives: The Voices of Women Architects from the School of Madrid in Early Democratic Spain (1975-1982) by Josenia Hervás y Heras, Eva Hurtado Torán

“…Starting in 1985, with the development of the Autonomous Regions in Spain and its accession to the European Economic Community, the country underwent a propound transformation. …”
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Winglet Design for Aerodynamic and Performance Optimization of UAVs via Surrogate Modeling by Eleftherios Nikolaou, Spyridon Kilimtzidis, Vassilis Kostopoulos

“…The integration of SBO techniques allowed for an efficient exploration of the design space while reducing computational costs associated with iterative high-fidelity simulations. In particular, the proposed SBO framework optimized the UAV’s aerodynamic characteristics, including lift-to-drag ratio and drag reduction, followed by a stability and control analyses to ensure balanced performance for the optimal configurations. …”
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Elèves, apprentissages et « numérique » : regard rétrospectif et perspectives by Georges-Louis Baron

“…From audio visual aids to digital online resources, in the last 50 years, a series of waves have broken upon the educational system and then recessed. Each one has had its own characteristics, its own aims. The main focus has been upon substituting devices to teachers, individualizing teaching, sparking collaboration between learners, educating a generation of citizens able to take into account the stakes of those new technologies. …”
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A Novel MoCo-Based Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Solar Panel Defect Detection by Jun Huang, Shamsul Arrieya Ariffin, Yongqiang Chen, Jinghui Lin, Wanting Xu

“…Additionally, our model achieved 99.44% accuracy on the EL dataset, underscoring its adaptability and robustness across different environments. …”
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A Clonal Selection Optimization System for Multiparty Secure Computing by Minyu Shi, Yongting Zhang, Huanhuan Wang, Junfeng Hu, Xiang Wu

“…The parallel processing system in deep learning links the virtual information space with the physical world, although the distributed deep learning research has become a crucial concern with its unique advantages in training efficiency, and improving the availability of trained models and preventing privacy disclosure are still the main challenges faced by related research. …”
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Wait Times for Gastroenterology Consultation in Canada: The Patients’ Perspective by WG Paterson, AN Barkun, WM Hopman, DJ Leddin, P Paré, DM Petrunia, MJ Sewitch, C Switzer, S Veldhuyzen van Zanten

“…As part of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology’s Human Resource initiative, a questionnaire was developed to survey patients regarding wait times for initial gastroenterology consultation and its impact. A total of 916 patients in six cities from across Canada completed the questionnaire at the time of initial consultation. …”
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The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers) by Rowland Atkinson

“…Critically then the risk is that ignoring the political and normative aspects of gating, as I believe Manzi and Smith-Bowers do, may lead to further and deeper socio-spatial segregation that itself excludes the voice of social groups least able to challenge or, indeed, reside in gated developments and the additional security that they appear to offer. …”
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Vision transformers for automated detection of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in corneal confocal microscopy images by Chaima Ben Rabah, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Rayaz A. Malik, Ahmed Serag

“…Corneal Confocal Microscopy (CCM) facilitates the imaging of corneal nerves to detect early and progressive nerve damage in DPN. However, its wider adoption has been limited by the subjectivity and time-intensive nature of manual nerve fiber quantification. …”
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Une histoire du paysage végétal à travers les analyses palynologiques du boulevard Dr Henri-Henrot à Reims/Durocortorum by Muriel Boulen

“…Archaeological efforts revealed variable periods of clogging or filling of an ancient branch of the Vesle, of its banks, and archaeological structures (basins). …”
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Epidermoid cysts of the orofacial region: A clinico-pathological study of 13 cases with review of literature by Priya Kumar, Rewa Malhotra, Aadithya B. Urs, Jeyaseelan Augustine, Sujata Mohanty

“…Aims: To highlight the typical and atypical features of ECs in the common as well as rare sites and draw attention to its consideration as a differential diagnosis for head and neck masses. …”
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A cognitive-stylistic study of deixis and deictic shifting in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell by Mohammad Ghaffary, Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, Mohadesse Khosravi

“…., perceptual, spatial, temporal, social, textual, and compositional deixis, in The Bell (1958), a critically acclaimed novel by the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch. Because of its special narrative discourse, in particular the use of variable internal focalization, Murdoch’s novel proves to be a proper case for exploring how deixis impacts upon the (implied) reader’s cognition of the story. …”
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Evaluation of Hybrid Soft Computing Model’s Performance in Estimating Wave Height by Tzu-Chia Chen, Zryan Najat Rashid, Biju Theruvil Sayed, Arif Sari, Ahmed Kateb Jumaah Al-Nussairi, Majid Samiee-Zenoozian, Mehrdad Shokatian-Beiragh

“…This study evaluates the wave height at Sri-Lanka Hambantota Port using soft computing models such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and the M5 model tree (M5MT). In order to overcome its nonstationarity, the primary wave height time series were divided into subtime series using the wavelet transform. …”
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